Sep 13

A Better Binary File Generator DSL in Ruby

Category: Programming, Ruby

In Creating a Binary File Using a Ruby DSL I did a very small example of using a ruby DSL to generate complex binary files without having to use C or a hexeditor. I’ve beefed it up significantly since then so here is the updated version of h2b.irb.

Now I can write something like this:

#write ascii header
ascii "File header V1.0"
byte 0
 
#stream data
data = block{
    hex "01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A"
    hex "AA BB CC DD EE FF AB AC AD AE"
}
 
frame_data = block{
    #create frames
    each_chunk(data, 2){ |chunk|
        hex "HEADER"
        binary chunk
    }
}
 
 
#shift right by 3 bits
#and fill to byte boundaries
#with 0's
shift_right(3, 0){
    #original
    binary(frame_data)
    #reversed/inverted version
    reverse_bits{
        invert{
            binary(frame_data)
        }
    }
}

And get this with hexdump

00000000  46 69 6c 65 20 68 65 61  64 65 72 20 56 31 2e 30  |File header V1.0|
00000010  00 03 d5 bd 60 20 43 d5  bd 60 60 83 d5 bd 60 a0  |....` C..``...`.|
00000020  c3 d5 bd 60 e1 03 d5 bd  61 21 43 d5 bd 75 57 63  |...`....a!C..uWc|
00000030  d5 bd 79 9b a3 d5 bd 7d  df e3 d5 bd 75 75 83 d5  |..y....}....uu..|
00000040  bd 75 b5 d1 49 45 09 50  f9 45 45 09 50 e0 11 05  |.u..IE.P.EE.P...|
00000050  09 50 e8 99 85 09 50 e4  55 45 09 50 f5 ed e5 09  |.P....P.UE.P....|
00000060  50 fd e3 e5 09 50 f3 eb  e5 09 50 fb e7 e5 09 50  |P....P....P....P|
00000070  f7 ef e5 09 50 e0                                 |....P.|

The Author

Michael Smit is a software engineer in Maryland who currently develops software for spacecraft, spacecraft simulators, and spacecraft control systems.

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